+1 too (non binding whatsoever) On 11/27/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+1 Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > It hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure it will: somebody will ask for a > lab that wants to do something that is relatively close of what somebody > else is doing, but using a different approach, or simply wants to work > alone on it. > > I personally don't see anything wrong with it: labs are a place where > cooperation should be welcome and suggested, but not mandated and where > duplication of effort could be a sign of parallel research, thus faster > exhaustion of dead-ends, rather than a sign of waste of energy. > > In a commercial environment, where time, energy and human resources are > scarce resources, overlap and duplication is rarely a useful thing. > > Here, if somebody wants to work on their own things instead of working > with somebody else, the wasted resource would be forcing them to work > together or one adapt somebody else's approach forcefully. > > So, labs should never be discriminated because somebody else is already > occupying that functional space. > > Of course, fights and balkanization *are* considered harmful and won't > be tolerated, but labs establishment should follow what the PI > needs/wants rather than avoiding duplication of effort. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
